Junaid Turay

Junaid Turay (17 September 1969-14 November 2015) was a commander of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC).

Biography
Junaid Turay was born on 17 September 1969 in Kfar Kadum in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Originally a Muslim, he later became an atheist, seeing religion as the cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and refusing to worship the same god as Jews. Turay developed Marxist views while being educated, and he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group. Turay was responsible for the planning of several attacks against the Israelis, and his operations led to him being described as a "great revolutionary" by Palestine and an "evil terrorist" by the rest of the world. Turay was an ally of the Syrian Arab Republic, which funded his activities to help his revolution. He had sanctuary within Syria under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar al-Assad, and he was safe from Israeli retribution. However, the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War led to problems with his safety, and on 14 November 2015 he was killed in a bombing in the capital of Damascus by the al-Nusra Front.